INVESTIGATION OF RATERS AND RATEES REACTIONS TO 3 METHODS OF PERFORMANCE-APPRAISAL - BOS, BARS, AND GRS

It was hypothesized that in comparison to a GRS-based performance appr aisal and review, behaviour-based (BARS and BOS) appraisals and review s would generate superior goal properties (e.g., specificity), better goal characteristics (e.g., acceptance), and more favourable user reac tions (e.g., ratee satisfaction with the appraisal process). Data from a field experiment involving 46 police sergeants (raters) and their 1 52 subordinates (ratees) supported almost all of the predictions. Part icularly strong evidentiary support was found for the BOS-based perfor mance appraisal and review. These results, as well as recent empirical evidence from other studies, lend credence to the proposition that a BOS-based performance appraisal and review may be superior to other ap praisal methods in terms of yielding more favourable attitudinal effec ts.